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Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth
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The current review provides an evidence base update of psychosocial treatments for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth. A systematic search was conducted of 2 major scientific databases (PsycInfo and PubMed) and ClinicalTrials.gov for relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published prior to June 2018. The search identified 26 RCTs examining interventions for SITBs in youth: 17 were included in the 2015 review and 9 trials were new to this update. The biggest change since the prior review was the evaluation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for adolescents (DBT-A) as the first Level 1: Well-established intervention for reducing deliberate self-harm (composite of nonsuicidal and suicidal self-injury) and suicide ideation in youth and Level 2: Probably efficacious for reducing nonsuicidal self-injury and suicide attempts. Five other interventions were rated as Level 2: Probably efficacious for reducing SITBs in youth, with the new addition of Integrated Family Therapy. This evidence base update indicates that there are a few promising treatments for reducing SITBs in youth. Efficacious interventions typically include a significant family or parent training component as well as skills training (e.g., emotion regulation skills). Aside from DBT-A, few treatments have been examined in more than one RCT. Given that replication by independent research groups is needed to evaluate an intervention as Well-established, future research should focus on replicating the five promising interventions currently evaluated as Probably efficacious. In addition, an important future direction is to develop brief efficacious interventions that may be scalable to reach large numbers of youth.
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“…al., 2016) and traumatic stress (Dorsey et al., 2017), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adolescents (Glenn et al., 2019), and adjunctive family skill-building plus psychoeducation for pediatric bipolar disorder (Brickman & Fristad, 2022; see also…”
Systematic Review: Patient Outcomes in Transdiagnostic Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Programs
Rubenson, M. P., Gurtovenko, K., Simmons, S. W., & Thompson, A. D. (2023) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2023.03.022 · Cited by 15
Miller, A. B., Jenness, J. L., Elton, A., Pelletier‐Baldelli, A., Patel, K. K., Bonar, A. S., Martin, S., Dichter, G. S., Giletta, M., Slavich, G. M., et al. (2023) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.10.015 · Cited by 17
“If replicated, this work lends additional support for including emotion regulation skills as a core component in psychosocial treatments addressing STBs (78).”
Prevalence of suicide attempts across the African continent: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Babajani, F., Salari, N., Far, A. H., Abdoli, N., Mosafer, H., Heidarian, P., & Mohammadi, M. (2023) · Asian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103878 · Cited by 16
A Rhesus Monkey Model of Non-suicidal Self-Injury
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A Framework for Identifying Neurobiologically Based Intervention Targets for NSSI
Schreiner, M. W., Klimes‐Dougan, B., Parenteau, A. M., Hill, D. C., & Cullen, K. R. (2019) · Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports · doi:10.1007/s40473-019-00188-z · Cited by 15
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Berk, M. S., Gallop, R., Asarnow, J. R., Adrian, M. C., Hughes, J. L., & McCauley, E. (2024) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2024.01.012 · Cited by 14
Treatment of Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Review of Family Factors and Family Therapy
Bean, R. A., Keenan, B. H., & Fox, C. (2021) · American Journal of Family Therapy · doi:10.1080/01926187.2021.1909513 · Cited by 18
“In their (and our) opinion, these interpersonal contextual factors should be a primary focus of intervention, especially given indications that the most significant reductions in self-harm are tied to the treatment models with the greatest family involvement (Glenn et al., 2019).”
BackgroundInfluentialCo‐occurrence of nonsuicidal self‐injury and eating disorder pathology in adolescents
Reas, D. L., Wisting, L., & Dahlgren, C. L. (2022) · International Journal of Eating Disorders · doi:10.1002/eat.23826 · Cited by 15
Tailoring treatments for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury
Plener, P. L. (2020) · European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s00787-020-01523-6 · Cited by 15
“This is in line with recent reviews [2, 3], reporting on overall good results from psychotherapy studies aiming to reduce self-harm.”
BackgroundResultAdolescent suicide: an individual disaster, but a systemic failure
Cavelti, M., & Kaess, M. (2021) · European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s00787-021-01834-2 · Cited by 14
An Update on the Latest Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents
Spirito, A., Webb, M. A., Cheek, S. M., Wolff, J. C., & Esposito-Smythers, C. L. (2021) · Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s40501-021-00239-x · Cited by 13
“RCTs of youth [11] and concluded that DBT was a well-established treatment of”
BackgroundShenk, C. E., Keeshin, B. R., Bensman, H. E., Olson, A. E., & Allen, B. (2021) · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173298 · Cited by 14
Núñez, D., Gaete, J., Meza, D., Andaur, J., & Robinson, J. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19073947 · Cited by 12
“These differences were not significant, which might be due to the small sample size [49].”
BackgroundMethodDiaz-Ramos, R. E., Noriega, I., Trejo, L. A., Stroulia, E., & Cao, B. (2023) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/48210 · Cited by 12
“In mental health care, customized machine learning has been used to identify individuals at high risk for suicide and to provide personalized interventions based on individual characteristics and needs [28].”
Lewis, S. P., Kenny, T. E., Pritchard, T. R., Labonte, L., Heath, N., & Whitley, R. (2022) · Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · doi:10.1097/nmd.0000000000001541 · Cited by 5
“Although many of the strategies reported by participants in this study were evidence-informed (e.g., distraction, social support; Glenn et al., 2019; Turner et al., 2014), others were not (e.g., replacement behaviors, substance use) and may do more harm than good (Wadman et al., 2020).”
BackgroundPsychological interventions for suicidal behavior in adolescents: a comprehensive systematic review
García-Fernández, A., Bobes-Bascarán, T., Martínez-Cao, C., González-Blanco, L., Fernández, J. F., Madera, P. Z., Zazo, E. S., Jiménez-Treviño, L., García‐Portilla, M. P., Bobes, J., et al. (2024) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-024-03132-2 · Cited by 12
“Until 2015, no randomized clinical trial (RCT) had examined the ef fi cacy of DBT in adolescents, and no study had demonstrated the superiority of DBT over a control treatment [6].”
BackgroundCarosella, K. A., Mirza, S. A., Başgöze, Z., Cullen, K. R., & Klimes‐Dougan, B. (2023) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106056 · Cited by 11
“…patterns which will inform preventive and clinical interventions including those which aim to address physiological reactivity to stressors and others that combat the thought patterns associated with stress perception and difficulties in emotion regulation (Glenn et al., 2019; Slopen et al., 2014).”
BackgroundSuicidal Behavior, Mental Health, and Stressful Life Events Among Adolescents
López-Fernández, F. J., Moreno-Amador, B., Falcó, R., Soto‐Sanz, V., Marzo, J. C., Ibáñez, M. I., Cervin, M., & Piqueras, J. A. (2024) · Psicothema · doi:10.7334/psicothema2023.126 · Cited by 10
“Those are: family-centered approaches, with the aim of improving family functioning which may reduce, in turn, adolescent suicidal behavior; and skills training, including tolerating stress (Glenn et al., 2019).”
Brausch, A. M., Kalgren, T., & Howd, C. (2024) · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · doi:10.1007/s10802-024-01269-8 · Cited by 10
“Furthermore, only 16–26% of adolescents with SITBs report that their parents know about their behavior (Berger et al., 2013), even though parent involvement is crucial for adolescent intervention for SITBs (Glenn et al., 2019).”
Experiences of dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents: A qualitative analysis
Ohlis, A., Bjureberg, J., Ojala, O., Kerj, E., Hallek, C., Fruzzetti, A. E., & Hellner, C. (2023) · Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice · doi:10.1111/papt.12447 · Cited by 18
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The process of recovery and change in a dialectical behaviour therapy programme for youth
Lakeman, R., & Emeleus, M. (2020) · International Journal of Mental Health Nursing · doi:10.1111/inm.12749 · Cited by 15
The incubator treatment development model: The SAFETY treatment for suicidal/self-harming youth
Asarnow, J. R., Hughes, J., Cohen, D., Berk, M., McGrath, E., & Huey, S. J. (2022) · Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2020.09.012 · Cited by 10
Bettis, A. H., Burke, T. A., Scott, S., Bedock, C., Ambriano, C., Parrish, J., Marsh, D., & Fox, K. R. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1002/jclp.23633 · Cited by 9
Advocacy to Address Emergent Pediatric Mental Health Care
Gonzalez, K., Patel, F., Cutchins, L. A., Kodish, I. M., & Uspal, N. G. (2020) · Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.cpem.2020.100778 · Cited by 9
Editorial: Suicide prevention in youth
Berk, M. S. (2022) · Child and Adolescent Mental Health · doi:10.1111/camh.12604 · Cited by 9
Goger, P., Guo, R., Jo, S., Cha, C. B., Ribeiro, J. D., Huang, X., & Fox, K. R. (2024) · Behavior Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.beth.2024.10.003 · Cited by 9
Maultsby, K. D., López, R., Wolff, J. C., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. L. (2023) · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · doi:10.1007/s10802-022-01018-9 · Cited by 8
“A growing number of interventions designed to address youth suicidality do incorporate parent/family psychoeducation, parental emotion regulation, conflict management, communication, problem-solving, and activities to promote family connectedness (Glenn et al., 2019).”
BackgroundApproach-avoidance biases to self-harm cues in young people with self-harm
Rodrigues, R., Mehesz, E., Lingford-Hughes, A. R., & Simplicio, M. C. D. (2023) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.021 · Cited by 8
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“Finally, increased knowledge of moderators and predictors of treatment outcome following evidence ‐ based treatments for adolescent NSSI can also advance our understanding of the treat-ment of adolescent self ‐ injury in general (Glenn et al., 2019).”
BackgroundFlygare, O., Ojala, O., Pontén, M., Klintwall, L., Karemyr, M., Sjöblom, K., Wallert, J., Hellner, C., Nilbrink, J., Bellander, M., et al. (2024) · Cognitive Behaviour Therapy · doi:10.1080/16506073.2024.2407155 · Cited by 7
“Emotion regulation, a process through which an individual influences the experience and expression of emotions (Gross, 2015), has been identified as an important mechanism underlying NSSI and is a core treatment target in psychological interventions for NSSI (Glenn et al., 2019; Witt et al., 2021).”
Transdiagnostic prevention in youth mental health, Part II: interventions
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“DBT has shown effectiveness in preventing depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and improving emotion regulation skills in this high risk population [116 – 118].”
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“Such targets can easily be integrated into evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral treatments, for both adolescent anxiety disorders (Higa-McMillan et al., 2015) and suicidality (Glenn et al., 2019).”
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“However, there exists few effective intervention measures for adolescents with SI, and even fewer interventions showed a repetitive effect [7,8].”
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“Comprehensive meta-analytic [22, 23] and systematic review [24, 25, 26] studies published in the past decade high-light existing interventions for youth with suicidal ideation or behavior that vary in treatment modality, targets, as well as evidence base supporting their effectiveness.”
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“…behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and brief interventions during high risk periods do show promise (Cha et al., 2018; Glenn et al., 2019), meta ‐ analyses have found that treatment efficacy is low and has not improved over the last 50 years overall (Harris et al.,…”
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“DBT is currently the leading evidence-based treatment for adolescent self-harm and suicidality (Busby et al., 2020; Glenn et al., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Glenn, C. R., Esposito, E. C., Porter, A. C., & Robinson, D. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- Corresponding author
- Glenn, Catherine R.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-05-02
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 357-392
- ISSN
- 1537-4416 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-4424
- PMC
- PMC6534465
- OpenAlex
- W4230498762
- Cited by
- 219
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 6
- FWCI
- 27.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (L30 MH101616)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, self-harm, non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, youth, psychosocial interventions, dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents, parent training, emotion regulation skills, brief intervention, treatment efficacy
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